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Country of origin:Italy
Produced in:1971
Internal name:Tipo 33
Predecessor:Alfa Romeo 33/3 Spider
Successor:Alfa Romeo 33/TT/3
Author:Wouter Melissen
Last updated:April 05, 2005
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Click here to download printer friendly versionOver the winter subtle improvements were made to the T33/3 focusing on sorting the reliability issues and shedding weight. Progress was certainly made as a victory was scored in Buenos Aires and a T33/3 placed third at Sebring. Unfortunately, the five-litre Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 'GT' racers also came to the fore, relegating the three-litre prototypes back to chasing class wins. These were scored at Imola and Zeltweg and one of the three T33/3s entered in the 24 Hours of Le Mans ran as high as second before retiring with an alternator failure after 18 hours.

Realising that the three-litre cars would be no match for the bigger 917s and 512s on high speed tracks, Autodelta redeveloped the T33/3 to better suit events like the Targa Florio. Smaller, 13" wheels were fitted and the nose was redesigned to accommodate for the revised wheels. The changes really paid off as the 1971 specification T33/3 placed second at Sebring and first in class. Andrea de Adamich and Henri Pescarolo won the Brands Hatch 1000 km outright. Class wins were also scored at Monza, Spa and Zeltweg, while T33/3 won the Targa Florio and Watkins Glen 6 Hours outright.

With the 917 and 512 banned from 1972, new opportunities emerged for the T33. The car was redeveloped into the T33/TT/3, which boasted a new space frame chassis and a transverse gearbox. Faced with strong competition from Ferrari and Matra, it did not prove nearly as successful as the T33/3 had been in 1971. Some of the surviving cars were sold to privateers, who continued to race the T33/3s in a wide variety of events, including even the Can-Am Challenge Cup.

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